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One Problem with Tinted Windows

From the Daily Mail: “Traffic wardens slapped seven tickets on a parked car over a two-week period without noticing the driver was dead inside the vehicle.”

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Posted on Wednesday, March 11th, 2009 at 3:59 pm by: Tom Vanderbilt
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Things I Didn’t Know

According to the Federal Highway Administration, Angelenos drive 23 miles per resident per day. This ranks the Los Angeles metro area 21st highest among the largest 37 cities. The champions (or losers) are probably Houston, followed by Jacksonville and Orlando, all of which are over 30 miles per day. New Yorkers drive the fewest miles (17 VMT per resident per day), thanks in large part to relatively high transit ridership and lots of walking trips.

This comes from Eric Morris’ final entry in his counterintuitive traffic quiz, dedicated to shattering all myths of Los Angeles mobility.

He goes on:

Despite our reputation, we Angelenos don’t exhibit any particularly great predilection for freeway travel either. Los Angeles ranks 14th out of the 37 largest metro areas in terms of highway miles driven per resident per day. To be sure, this is above the median, but it hardly points to the sort of unique freeway fetish Angelenos are accused of harboring.

But before you go toss that copy of L.A Story in the trash, on one important measure, L.A. is right where you’d expect, however: America’s worst congestion.

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Posted on Wednesday, March 11th, 2009 at 3:34 pm by: Tom Vanderbilt
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Pedaling Revolution

Jeff Mapes’ new book Pedaling Revolution is out, and he’ll be in New York on Friday for a Q&A/signing.

I provided this comment to the book’s publisher:

“Writing from Portland, the hub of the American cycling renaissance, Jeff Mapes, brimming with passion, humor and salutary insight, makes an admirably clear-headed, convincing and, ultimately, humane argument for making more room for the two-wheeler, in our lives and on our roads.”

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Posted on Wednesday, March 11th, 2009 at 7:27 am by: Tom Vanderbilt
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Traffic Tom Vanderbilt

How We Drive is the companion blog to Tom Vanderbilt’s New York Times bestselling book, Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us), published by Alfred A. Knopf in the U.S. and Canada, Penguin in the U.K, and in languages other than English by a number of other fine publishers worldwide.

Please send tips, news, research papers, links, photos (bad road signs, outrageous bumper stickers, spectacularly awful acts of driving or parking or anything traffic-related), or ideas for my Slate.com Transport column to me at: info@howwedrive.com.

For publicity inquiries, please contact Kate Runde at Vintage: krunde@randomhouse.com.

For editorial inquiries, please contact Zoe Pagnamenta at The Zoe Pagnamenta Agency: zoe@zpagency.com.

For speaking engagement inquiries, please contact
Jenna Meulemans at the Knopf Speaker Bureau.

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For UK publicity enquiries please contact Rosie Glaisher at Penguin.

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